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UK Video game retailer GAME have today announced a brand new Pokémon event for all sixth generation games. This event allows gamers to get a hold of a Shiny Charizard holding a Charizardite Y. The details of the Charizard are as follows:​

The event works with Pokémon X, Pokémon Y, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. GAME will be giving codes out for the Charizard from the 3rd of April until the 19th of April, so you'll have to grab one quick! You have until the 2nd of July to redeem the codes on your game however.

We've updated the Trainer Card Maker today with the latest community-submitted assets - we've added 47 new character sprites, and 21 new banners. You can find a complete list by clicking Continue Reading.

Hey all, @Kyubeon here! As Pokecharms is celebrating its twelfth anniversary this year, several of the members and I got together to create a little something to celebrate the occasion. It's not much, but I hope you guys enjoy the video and messages the members, past and present, old and new, have to put together about this amazing website.

Thank you to everyone who participated to make this project possible, and also to staff for making this entire website experience possible! Here's to many more to come, and once again, Happy Pokecharms Day (and stay Crazy and Proud~)!

As some of you may know, we celebrate Pokécharms' "official" birthday on St. Patrick's Day - partly because there's no defined day Pokécharms came into being, and partly to celebrate Pokécharms' Northern Irish roots. Today, Pokécharms turns 12 - which means we're now as old as a lot of the people who visit us! We've got a few things planned for today, so keep an eye on the front page for more!

To mark the occasion, some of our staff have written retrospectives on the last year, which you can see by clicking through to the full article. You can also quickly read certain retrospectives by clicking the links after the break!

A new check-in addition for free to play 3DS Pokémon game, Pokémon Shuffle, has been released today. The addition gives you the chance to earn a Mega Lucationite stone by playing through the stage in the aim to get the best score and rank within the top 20,000 when the results are posted.

You can play this stage for a week with the results being posted on the 23rd of March. Every player who attempts the stage will be given a jewel for their efforts. Currently this is the only way to get a Lucarionite Mega Stone.

Late last night a brand new trailer for the 18th Pokémon movie, The Archdjinni of the Rings - Hoopa. The trailer doesn't reveal too much of note, but we do know more about the Pikachu short to be shown before the movie.

You can check out the trailer below and I've put some images in a spoiler tag due to them having spoilers for the Pokémon XY anime series.

The short which goes along with the movie is known as Pikachu & The Music Band which features Pikachu and his Pokémon friends attempting to sing in beautiful harmony.

So, it's March1st, which means (in the northern end of the world, anyway) it's the start of spring. Ostensibly. But as spring is the season of change, new life, and growth, it seems like a great theme for a Flash Challenge! So...

The Challenge

Create a written work, artwork, or trainer card about springtime.

Springtime means a lot of things to a lot of different people. What does it mean to you, or your characters? What happens in spring and no other time? And what would a baby Dunsparce look like, anyway?

Full details are below the cut as always - click "Continue Reading" to read more!

Free to play Pokémon puzzler Pokémon Shuffle is now live on the European eShop for the Nintendo 3DS.

Pokémon Shuffle was released in Japan yesterday and while it wasn't expected to appear on our eShop until Thursday the game has been quietly released in Europe, with a US release expected to follow later today.

The game sets you off with 5 hearts which go down by one every time you play a stage. After that hearts restore themselves one every 30 minutes. Gems which restore hearts can be bought through the eShop for the prices below:

1 Gem - £0.89

6 Gems - £4.49

12 Gems - £8.09

35 Gems - £22.49

75 Gems - £42.99

It's worth noting that the first five stages of the game are tutorials meaning you won't be able to really get into the game until your hearts restore themselves as the tutorial is not skippable. You are given a gem which allows you to restore them, but...